Folding fan.



No. 760,452. PATENTED MAY 24, 1904'. F. HELM.

FOLDING FAN.

APPLIOATION FILED mm. 12. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented May 24, 190% PATENT OEEIcE.

FREDERICK HELM, OF NEW" YORK, N. Y. ASSIGNOR TO SOHEUER & BROTHER, A COPARTNERSHIP OOMPOSED OF ISAAC SCHEUER, CHARLES SOHEUER, AND MAURICE SCHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING FAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,452, dated May 24, 1904. Application filed December 12, 1902- QSerial No. 135,024. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK Hamvna citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, Manhattan borough, in the county and 5 State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Fans, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

to This invention relates to improvements in devices of that class extensively employed for air-agitating purposes, and particularly to devices of the class specified whose construction calls for the presence of jointed frame mem- I 5 here, the same being commonly known as folding fans.

The object of this invention is to provide a folding fan which shall be simple and inexpensive as regards construction, which shall 2 embody novel features of construction adapted to enhance its durability, reliability, and efficiency in practical service and also insure therefor a peculiarly-attractive external appearance, and which shall possess certain welldefined advantages over prior analogous constructions.

The invention consists in the employment of parts novel as to form, in the novel means availed of for conjoining or assembling the 3 operative parts thereof, in certain combinations, and in certain details of construction, all of which will be specifically referred to hereinafter, and set forth in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference-numerals denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

As to said drawings, Figure 1 is a View in 4- perspective, illustrating a folding fan constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view de signed to more clearly illustrate the form and relative disposition of certain minor details of theconstruetion. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view, the section being taken longitudinally through the opposing expansible pivots used in connection with the frame members of my improved fan, the scale being materially enlarged as compared with Figs. 1 and 2. I 5

In a general sense my invention comprises two jointed frame members, a part or parts intermediate of said frame members and serving to connect the same, and expansible pivots for loosely holding the part or parts afore- 5 5 named in place for service, the said pivots beingeach non-exposed at the outer end thereof.

In carrying out my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, I. make use of opposing frame members 2 2", the former provided with opposing extensions 3 3 at one end thereof and the latter with like extensions 4 A at the corresponding end thereof. The frame members 2 2 are provided the one with a handle extension 5 and the other with a like extension 5, these two handle extensions bemg brought together so as to be grasped by the user when the frame members 2 2 shall have been swung backwardly so as to fully distend the plaited blade 7 6, which is conjoined with the frame members 2 2 in any appropriate manner, as by the use of paste, cement, or other adhesive element.

The opposing frame members 2 2 are formed from wood or other suitable material, and the blade 6 is formed from fabric or other analogous material adapted to take a plaited form. The extensions 3 3of the frame member 2 have arranged thereon, respectively, shields 6 6", and the extensions 4 4c of the frame memher 2' have arranged thereon, respectively, like shields 7 7 The respective shields 6 6" 7 7 are here shown as being each in the form of a cap inclosing its cooperating frame-member extension in its entirety and formed from 5 thin sheet metal. It is evident that these shields may vary somewhat in the matterof form.

I further employ a part or parts for loosely connecting the frame members 22 and in this 9 instance have illustrated opposing links 8 8',

the former loosely-connecting the extensions 3 3 and the latter loosely connecting the extensions 4 4, the said links having each a pivotal relation with respect to the frame-member extensions cooperating therewith. The links 8 8 are arranged, respectively, at the inner sides of the shield-carrying extensions cooperating therewith and are loosely held in place for service, the one by means of pivots 8" 9 and the other by means of pivots 9 9", the said pivots 8 9 9 9 being each here illustrated as taking the form of a small tube expansible at its respective ends.

Each of the frame-member extensions aforenamed has an opening extending through it from side to side, and its cooperating shield has an opening which extends only through the inner side portion thereof, which opening when said shield is in place registers with the opening just referred to as being formed in the cooperating frame-member extension. The opposite or outer side portion of each of the shields aforenamed is raised somewhat at a point opposite the pivot-opening extending through its inner side portion, thus forming a socket 10 to receive the inner end of its cooperating pivot. Each of the pivots aforenamed is headed over or flanged somewhat at its inner or exposed end, extends through its cooperating link by way of a suitable opening formed therein, through the inner side portion of its cooperating shield by way of the pivotopening formed in the latter, through its co operating frame-member extension by way of the opening aforenamed formed in such extension, and its opposite or outer end enters the socket 10, with which the outer side por- 'tion of its cooperating shield is provided, whereupon by means of a suitable die or instrument and pressure the material of the outer side portion of said shield at the point of location of its socket 10 and the adjacent end of said pivot are simultaneously manipulated in a manner to effect a locking engagement of said pivot end with and at the inner side of said outer side portion of said shield, thereby covering said pivot end and obviating exposure thereof at the outer side of the fan proper. Specifically, the material of said side portion at its socket 10, which side portion is intact and traverses the outer side of its cooperating frame member, and said pivot end are simultaneously manipulated, so as to produce a circular fold in said side portion of a greater diameter than the normal diameter of said pivot and also produce an outwardly projecting flange 10 at the adjacent end of said pivot, which flange projects into the recess formed by the folded segments of said side portion where such flange is firmly grasped by said segments, and said pivot is accordingly securely held in position for service.

In addition to the function which each of the pivots aforenamed performs in connection with its cooperating link such pivot operates when adjusted for service to efiectively prevent displacement of its cooperating-metallic shield.

' It will be understood that the foregoing remarks apply to each of the pivots employed as elements of my improved fan and parts and details of construction cooperating therewith and pertaining thereto.

It will be seen that my improved fan is particularly well adapted for the purposes for which it is intended, and, further, that the same may be modified to some extent without materially departing from the spirit and principle of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A folding fan comprising two frame members, each having an extension provided with a sheet-metal shield, the latter embodying an intact portion traversing the outer side of said extension; a link for connecting said frame members, the said link being arranged at the inner side of said frame extensions; and expansible pivots, loosely holding said link in position, the said pivots extending each through said link, through its cooperating frame extension, and having a locking engagement with the intact portion aforenamed of its cooperating shield, thereby being non-exposed at the outer side of said shield portion, substantially as herein specified.

2. Afolding fan comprising frame members linked together, the said frame members being provided each with an extension having a metallic shield arranged thereon, and pivots for loosely holding said link in position, the said link operating on said pivots, and the latter extending each through said link, through its cooperating frame extension, and having a locking engagement with, and at the inner side of, the outer portion of its cooperating metallic shield, substantially as herein specified.

3. A folding fan comprising frame members, having opposing extensions provided respectively with metallic shields; opposing links each connecting one extension of one frame member with the corresponding extension of the other frame member; and pivots for holding said links, respectively, in position, the said pivots extending each through its cooperating frame extension, and having a locking engagement with, and at the inner side of, the outer portion of its cooperating metallic shield, substantially as herein specified.

4. A folding fan comprising a frame member having a shielded extension, the said shield embodying an intact portion traversing the outer side of said extension; and a pivot projecting through said extension from the inner the latter having a circular fold, and said I pivot having a flange grasped between the folded segments of said intact portion, at the inner side thereof, substantially as herein specified.

FREDERICK HELM. Witnesses:

H. Klnsnwm'rnn, HENRY 'lorrnn. 

